The Breakwater Book Of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry

Author : Mark Callanan,James Langer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1550814087

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The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry by Mark Callanan,James Langer Pdf

Gathering the strongest poetry published by Newfoundlanders since the death of E.J. Pratt in 1964, The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry features selections from twelve of the province's most impressive poets, including Al Pittman, Tom Dawe, Mary Dalton, John Steffler, Patrick Warner, and Ken Babstock. This groundbreaking anthology, with over forty years of poetry on display, celebrates the rousing and the rebirth of contemporary Newfoundland verse. - 20130114

Author : Mark Callanan
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781771964463

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Romantic by Mark Callanan Pdf

Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry • Longlisted for the 2023 E.J. Pratt Family Poetry Award A CBC Best Canadian Poetry Book of 2021 Drawing on Arthurian myth, the Romantic poets, the ill-fated "Great War" efforts of the Newfoundland Regiment, modern parenthood, 16-bit video games, and Major League Baseball, these poems examine the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, both as individuals and as communities, in order to explain how and why we are the way we are. At its heart, Romantic interrogates our western society's idealized, self-deluding personal and cultural perspectives.

Author : Mary Dalton
Publisher : Pratt Lectures
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1550819313

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The Vernacular Strain in Newfoundland Poetry by Mary Dalton Pdf

Mary Dalton's 2020 Pratt Lecture engages with the vernacular voice in Newfoundland poetry, illustrating the move from uncertainty to acceptance and welcoming of the beauty and variety of the language of Newfoundland. The Vernacular Strain in Newfoundland Poetry explores some of the tensions between the oral and the written in the poetry of Newfoundland, with particular emphasis on the struggle towards a confident incorporation of vernacular speech in the poetry of the island in the latter part of the twentieth century. As the word "strain" suggests, there were reservations and hesitancies about drawing on what is a hugely rich linguistic and sonic resource for poetry, one of many vitiating results of a colonial legacy. This Pratt Lecture celebrates the vitality of poetry which lets in Newfoundland idioms and cadences. Among the poets considered are Percy Janes, Tom Dawe, Al Pittman, David Glover, John Steffler and Harold Paddock, and the generation who followed them: Agnes Walsh, Gordon Rodgers, Carmelita McGrath, Michael Crummey, Robin McGrath. The PRATT LECTURES were established in 1968 to commemorate the legacy of E.J. Pratt. Over the years, the series has hosted a litany of world-renowned authors and scholars, including Northrop Frye, Seamus Heaney, Helen Vendler, and Dionne Brand.

Author : Boyd Warren Chubbs
Publisher : Breakwater Books
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1550811533

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The Birth and Burial Grounds by Boyd Warren Chubbs Pdf

The Newfoundland Poetry Series was begun in 1993 as Breakwater's twentieth anniversary project to honour and preserve the literary talents of our Newfoundland and Labrador poets. Selection is based on quality. Breakwater's aim is to make the series affordable to as many lovers of poetry as possible.

Author : Clyde Rose
Publisher : Portugal Cove, Nfld : Breakwater Books
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Canadian literature
ISBN : LCCN:74181782

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Baffles of Wind and Tide by Clyde Rose Pdf

Author : Al Pittman
Publisher : Breakwater Books Limited
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1550814370

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Collected Poems by Al Pittman Pdf

From the publication of his first collection, The Elusive Resurrection, in 1966, to his death in 2001 at the age of sixty-one, Al Pittman stood as one of the most respected and admired poets in Newfoundland. This definitive edition spans nearly four decades of poetic production, reprints each of Pittman's remarkable collections, and includes previously unpublished poems. The Collected Poems of Al Pittman at last offers readers the chance to appreciate this influential poet's work in its entirety.

Author : Adrian Fowler,Al Pittman
Publisher : St. John's, Nfld. : Breakwater Books
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Canadian poetry
ISBN : 0919948456

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31 Newfoundland Poets by Adrian Fowler,Al Pittman Pdf

Author : Tom Dawe
Publisher : Breakwater Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1550817558

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New and Collected Poems by Tom Dawe Pdf

***CANADA BOOK AWARD WINNER*** ***2020 RELIT AWARDS: LONG SHORTLIST*** For almost fifty years, Tom Dawe has stood as one of the most respected and admired poets in Newfoundland. This definitive, necessary collection spans five decades of poetic achievement, reprinting each of Dawe's published collections while gathering previously uncollected poems along with a stunning body of new work. This volume stands as a testament to a monumental achievement for readers both at home and abroad.

Author : Al Pittman
Publisher : Breakwater Books
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1550811541

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Thirty-for-sixty by Al Pittman Pdf

The Newfoundland Poetry Series was begun in 1993 as Breakwater's twentieth anniversary project to honour and preserve the literary talents of our Newfoundland and Labrador poets. Selection is based on quality. Breakwater's aim is to make the series affordable to as many lovers of poetry as possible.

Author : Randall Maggs
Publisher : Breakwater Books
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1550811088

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Timely Departures by Randall Maggs Pdf

The Newfoundland Poetry Series was begun in 1993 as Breakwater's twentieth anniversary project to honour and preserve the literary talents of our Newfoundland and Labrador poets. Selection is based on quality. Breakwater's aim is to make the series affordable to as many lovers of poetry as possible.

Author : Larry Small
Publisher : Breakwater Books
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1550812351

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Around the Red Land by Larry Small Pdf

These poems span the gamut of life from love to death; a eulogy for a people, who for the most part, are no longer with us. Their evolution in rural Newfoundland has taken hundreds of years and there is a good possibility that we will never see their likes again. Full of knowledge, self-sufficiency, independence, pride and dignity, most of them, I think, would be deeply insulted by some of our contemporary characterizations of them. One could easily argue that this collection is a portrayal of the tyranny of progress, the displacement of people, the destruction of community or part of the natural progression of human history. Either way, one cannot help being affected by their demise and the transformation of people and place into a form of human madness. Therefore, these poems might be viewed as a lament for ordinary people who were the most extraordinary men and women whom I was fortunate enough to have known. It behoves us never to forget them.

Author : María Jesús Hernáez Lerena
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443883337

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Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador by María Jesús Hernáez Lerena Pdf

The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador is a mythologized place that resonates with tragic adventure, polar expeditions and Grand Banks fishing; a real and imagined geography with an incredible artistic output that calls for critical discussion. This book examines the diversity of this province’s literature and culture, taking into consideration the expertise of scholars and writers who have first-hand knowledge of its unique context. Chapters on history, travel, fiction, autobiography, poetry, theatre, storytelling, filmmaking, and the visual arts provide an up-to-date survey across a broad range of artistic endeavours, as well as close readings of selected texts. The questions that fill the pages of Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador arise from the awareness its contributors have of historically shared experiences, but also of shared delusions, and their essays provoke contemplation beyond the labels local/global, Newfoundlander/Come-From-Away. Aboriginal histories and writing come to the foreground in this panoramic view that balances descriptions of mainstream, vernacular and Indigenous cultural productions. The final chapter is organized as a multi-voiced interview which serves as a supplement to the academic essays. Here, themes are revisited and personalized as several writers express their feelings about what it means to be a Newfoundlander and an artist. As such, this book will encourage dialogue about Newfoundland and Labrador’s literary and artistic achievements within the international community of readers and researchers.

Author : Charles William Rendell
Publisher : St. John's, Nfld. : Creative Publishers
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0920021298

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Slackwater by Charles William Rendell Pdf

Author : Al Pittman
Publisher : Breakwater Books
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1550810790

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Dancing in Limbo by Al Pittman Pdf

The Newfoundland Poetry Series was begun in 1993 as Breakwater's twentieth anniversary project to honour and preserve the literary talents of our Newfoundland and Labrador poets. Selection is based on quality. Breakwater's aim is to make the series affordable to as many lovers of poetry as possible.

Author : Heather Nolan
Publisher : Breakwater Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1550819259

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Land of the Rock: Talamh an Carraig by Heather Nolan Pdf

A poetic exploration of place and belonging, a quest that takes the speaker across the ocean in search of identity and origin. The speaker in the poems that form Land of the Rock: Talamh an Carraig travels through Newfoundland and Ireland looking for meaning in words, places, and behaviour. Whether the subject is tourists on Fogo Island, conversations on Inis Oírr, flora and fauna of the Burren, or accents in Waterford, Nolan translates this sensory data into a narrative of someone seeking a sense of belonging in a lost ancestral culture. In Land of the Rock, the lost utopia of Gaelic Ireland, which is interwoven through Irish writing and consciousness, is reimagined and displaced across the Atlantic.